This year's Brighton Festival was curated by Anish Kapoor. He arranged for his giant polished sculpture "C Curve" (1997) to be placed up on the Downs just outside Brighton. Here's a couple of shots of this extraordinary thing (one from each side), which was very popular to visit. Fortunately, it belittles the photographer (and my beer gut takes some belittling). It had to be guarded during the hours of daylight, because the concave side concentrated sunrays on a spot on the concrete plinth, where if you placed a cup of water, it boiled! The guards were there to ensure it didn't do the same to humans.
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Oh I just LOVE Anish Kapoor. Thanks for this. It's gorgeous.
I voted for his piece Sky Plinth for the fourth plinth :
http://www.london.gov.uk/fourthplinth/plinth/kapoor.jsp
Everything he makes is beautiful
Lovely little girl. She looks one size up from mine. What do you do with the clothes she grows out of?
@dangerpuss - thanks for the link - hope he gets to do that with the plinth when the Gormley slot is over. He had Sky Mirror (35 foot across) in the gardens next to the Royal Pavilion in Brighton.
@tinnie - not my kid, I'm afraid.
Imagine a collaboration between Anish Kapoor and James Turrell.
It'd be a masterclass in working with light and the sky and lateral thinking.
It seems to me that a mirror which focuses sunlight like that is less a health and safety worry and more of a lethal weapon.
In Spain it's called a solar power station, and a potential saviour of the planet from irreversible climate change.
I know, but you wouldn't want to be accidentally caught up in the focused rays, would you? I assume that in Spain (or in the Sahara, from what I've read) it's treated like a normal power station and you can't just wander around there.
I like the image of the kids looking at themselves in the mirror tho'!
Fascinating post
i've loved every big kapoor i've seen up close. thanks for posting.
Did you dive in and save this small child from being boiled?
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